QUICK REFERENCE -- PLACES

ASGARD -- place in which gods lived, in Norse mythology.

CUZCO -- known as "the navel of the world" in Incan mythology.

IFE-ILE -- "wide house"; the first place created on Earth, in Yoruban mythology. Still known as a sacred city.

LAND OF NIGHT -- the land of the dead; place of afterlife in Japanese mythology.

MIDGARD -- "middle earth"; place in which humans lived, in Norse mythology.

MOUNT OLYMPUS -- the home of the gods in Greek mythology.

MOUNT PARNASSUS -- after the great flood in Greek mythology, the place where the chest contaning Deucalion and Pyrrha landed.